Do you have higher intentions for holistic care for yourself? Well so some of our peers in nursing and healthcare. Join me in celebrating the release of "Empty Plate" by Tammera Karr and Kathleen Bell. I met these two wonderful human beings through the Oregon Holistic Nurses Association. Nurses have some of the worst standards of nutrition and self care among the general population yet we work tirelessly in health care efforts.  Lets find some tools to take better care of ourselves so we can offer our holistic selves. 

I hope many of you check out the book which is available on Tamerra's website where you can find the E-Book and many of the courses offered on holistic nutrition. You can also find hard copies on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or reach out to your local book store to ask them to stock a few copies.

https://yourwholenutrition.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Plate-Food-Sustainability-Mindfulness/dp/1732907234

Follow Kathy by checking out the Oregon Holistic Nurses Association. Here is a link to one of her helpful blogs for our community

https://www.oregonholisticnurses.org/what-is-self-care/?fbclid=IwAR3lJv0neZrCBbXkQYfe7hRbuVxy1NdcwV-pB8oVtz4Wo2oCQR8I5dn7WCM

This episode we get the pleasure to hear from Marina Ormes holistic care practitioner and director of Oregon Holistic Nurses Association. Hear about the mission of Oregon Holistic Nurses Association and it's goals of building and elevating self care practice for healthcare practitioners and their patients. In this time where many of our nurses and healthcare workers are struggling with burnout I wanted to introduce ways that there are and can be a community for healing the healers. Keep those cups filled.

Please check out OHNA's website where they host some free presentations(mini breaks) on mindfulness practice and guided meditations. https://www.oregonholisticnurses.org/ 

And for those more interested in more on the topic of astrology and guided meditations visit Marina's website for charts consultation, books and meditation groups 

https://astrologyheals.com/

On this episode of the podcast I interview my friend and death doula, Libby. We talk about grief. What are tools to bear something as heavy as grief? How do these tools serve us for death of a loved one, but how can they also serve us in hard transformations in life?

Hope you enjoy it and we hope it serves you in your grief.

This episode we get educated by one of my favorite nurse educators and community activist nurse Teri Mills, the Oregon Nurses Foundation Nurse of the Year(2019). Terri is currently the vice president of Oregon Nurses Association Political Action Committee.  Teri gives us some background on why she decided to advocate beyond the bedside and how this turned into a mission to enact a federal bill. Teri is president of the National Nurse Network which seeks to appoint a National Nurse for Public Health. Why is this important? Please listen, find out why, and sign up for ways you can support this effort. 

http://nationalnurse.org/

I am joined today with co-host Lace Velk BSN from episode one. We were very excited to interview her as she was a huge influence for Lace and I being politically minded as nurses.

Jackie F. Webb, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, current president of the National Association of Hispanic nurses Oregon Chapter and nurse educator at Oregon Health &Sciences University spends time discussing her work elevating nursing voices in the Hispanic communities at the  state and national level. 

We discuss the importance of mentoring nurse leaders in our community. We get into how nurses advocate and offer a unique and often welcomed perspective in community advocacy. This conversation covers how broadly we can reach out to many different communities outside of the healthcare profession to make positive health impacts.

Please reach out to Jackie to help with community outreach and mentoring for current and future nurses in our state.

Email : [email protected] 

Website: http://nahnnet.org/NAHN/Chapters/Oregon.aspx

Amy May of White Bird and Cahoots talks about grief counseling and the role of a death doula. What is the public health crisis in death and dying. Where can we honor our loved ones, ourselves, and our community to soften the experience of death and dying? Where can we answer the calling to serve in this life process? 

Please reach out if you feel a calling to heal this population in your community. www. whitebirdclinic.org or inelda.org to find out more how you can reach or become a death doula in your community.

Outro music by https://www.instagram.com/aarrkellz/

Support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/revolutionRN all proceeds go to community efforts and support the growth of the podcast

This episode I get to welcome Danaya Hall, women's health nurse and founder of the Alliance of Black Nurses Oregon Chapter. This is Oregon's first and only chapter. We talk about the story of how it came to be. We discuss addressing Racism in the workplace and our community. We discuss our experiences with the protests in Portland, Oregon and how activists are challenging racism and the history of racism in Oregon. 

Please reach out to your African American peers or any nurses who wish to become involved with the Alliance and please donate money to help them offer scholarships to black people in Oregon so they can be better represented in nursing.

https://www.abnao.org/

https://www.facebook.com/OregonBlackNurses/about/?ref=page_internal

Please visit the podcast Patreon where you can support the show for as little as $5 per month. 100% of the proceeds August 2020 through October 2020 will be donated to Alliance of Black Nurses Oregon to provide scholarships for African American Nurses.

https://www.patreon.com/revolution_RN

Here is a link to the Golden Girls episode we referenced in the episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlx-Md2ndRI

I get to sit down with the ever amazing Deborah Riddick, currently Director of Government Relations with Oregon Nurses Association. She talks about her dive into community advocacy from nurse, to getting her law degree, to writing and educating public health policy. Learn from one of the greatest people ever and get inspired to be your most effective and influential you.

Please consider joining your professional nurses association and advocating for health equality.

Outro "Cookin' in the Kitchen by Ryan Kelly https://www.instagram.com/aarrkellz/

Meet Lillian Ruth Nickerson, fellow nurse advocate, as we go into what it is to be a nurse in response to human violence, the BIPOC  movement, and our responsibility to make time to support and uplift the voices of the oppressed in times like these. If you're asking yourself how to make a place for yourself in these times, this conversation will no doubt inspire you.

Learn about her work on IP 44 which seeks to decriminalize minor drug offenses and provide support for our local mental health community.

Follow Lillian, reach out if you want to lend a hand or share your involvement, and support some of the causes she finds need peoples support to create the equality our world so desires.

https://www.instagram.com/lillian_ruth/

Outro Song by https://www.instagram.com/aarrkellz/

Episode 5 with Travis Nelson nurse and Labor Representative with Washington State Nurses Association and active member in the Oregon Nurses Association as well as the Democratic Party of Oregon. Travis tells us about is experience advocating in labor and in the realm of political action. You can follow Travis on 

https://www.facebook.com/Travis.Nelson.DNCMember

and reach him by email if you want to take action and get involved

dnc2@dpo.org